I currently am not in SDLC 110, but I have thought about my learning plan and have made some changes to it. The overall change I have made to my learning plan is just to be more detailed. I think my goals have remained the same. I still plan to follow all 10 of the steps I had in my learning plan, but I now have more things to think about and have specific resources I want to use. Instead of vaguely saying "Youtube videos" I have identified a few channels/online resources for Turkish language such as nur77akaltun (Youtube Channel), Learn Turkish Online, Turkish Basics, Turkish Language Class, and İngilizce Türkçe Hikayeler. With our class discussions and the videos we watched in class from TEDtalks, have given me ideas to expand my learning even further. For example, the video from Benny Lewis and readings about linguistic families encouraged me to look up Turkish-English cognates, since that will provide me hundreds of words that are already in my own vocabulary. Some words such as cigarette - sigara, ironic - ironik, million - milyon, music - müzik, surprise - sürpriz, vision - vizyon, to name a few. These just a handful of the many other words that exist in the language that overlap with ours. In finding familiar words like these, I am already much better off, even though I may not be needing these words for many situations, having them in my vocabulary is already benefiting me.
I think relationships between language and culture is very important to understand. There often are many norms in language that non-native speakers may not understand/recognize until we are put in certain situations. In improving my communicative competence, I hope to grow a better understanding of the norms and meanings in words/sayings/grammar in Turkish, in order for me to better grasp the language and also communicate effectively with other individuals. My Learning Plan incorporates grammatical competence in a sense where I hope to learn all pronouns and all the cases in Turkish, since language is not language without grammar, rather it would just be words. My Learning Plan does not involve discourse competence yet, since I do not think I will have ability for me to construct more than 3 sentences at a time. I have not reached the level of competence or proficiency in Turkish for me to be able to think more than using a handful of sayings in the right grammatical form. Sociolinguistic competence is something I hope to learn more about through interactions with the culture and native speakers since I will be better able to understand things such as power distance in language/behavior/culture.
Reflect on your language learning so far. How would you describe the relationship between language and culture? What do you need to do to improve your communicative competence? Based on the readings by H.D. Brown, what kinds of competence are emphasized in your learning plan?
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